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Open letter to Senator Corzine

I just heard you on C-SPAN, debating for the office of Governor of New Jersey, undermine the welfare/populist trend of your party, and want to congratulate you for it.You correctly described smoking in public as an imposition by the smoker on all affected non-smokers. It is an admirable moral...

Tags: Absolutely, corruption, education, injustice, off-topic, robin hood, sloth, smoke, smoker, theft, welfare

Discussion threads 2005-11-07

Major innovations that have changed history

Major innovations that have changed historyBricks... Just so everyone will understand I'm not just talking about "high tech" innovations, I though a good place to start would be bricks.They and dressed stone were the fundamental material which allowed the creation of large public structures... The Mayans built incredibly intricate palaces...

Tags: brick, economics, gunpowder, history, innovation, off-topic, powder, smoke, Surflover, technology, telegraph, west

Discussion threads 2005-10-14

Up in Smoke

I'm not referring to the Cheech and Chong cult classic movie here.I was at the dentist yesterday and while waiting I read the Canadian edition of Time magazine. The only thing Canadian about it was the advertising and measurements were in metric.The point of this post though is something I...

Tags: CANADIAN

Discussion threads 2004-10-07

Additional Resources

Smoke Alarm (widget)

Smoke Alarm allows smokers to set predefined intervals between smoke breaks. Smoke Alarm will blink and sound an alarm on the next scheduled smoke break. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Alarm, Interval, Smoke Alarm

Software downloads 2007-05-18

Dry Ice Screen Saver (exe)

Be captivated as you watch the mesmerizing smoke break away from each letter of your name. You can change the font, color, brightness, and volume of smoke to suite your taste. Runs fast even on slow computers.

Tags: Screensaver, Productivity

Software downloads 2007-01-04

NonSmokeTimer (widget)

NonSmokeTimer shows how many days, hours, minutes, and seconds you managed not to smoke, and how much money you saved by not smoking and how many cigarettes you didn't smoke. You can enter the date and time you stopped in the preferences, as well as how much cigarettes cost per...

Tags: Cigarette, NonSmokeTimer

Software downloads 2007-07-13

voltage increase

my video card requires a 450watt PSU. i have a 400watt psu. it works but will increasing the AGP voltage help it in any way?If you're looking for smoke.Raising the voltage will only make it hotter. You're underpowered which will make it run hot. The AGP will just...

Tags: Video cards, Norehca, voltage, watt

Discussion threads 2007-04-26

Notebook hard drive data recovery

Hi everyone I have a notebook hard drive that would not boot. I bought an adapter so I could connect it to a standard IDE connector and put it into a pc. The pc does not recognize the drive nor does the original notebook.I think the logic board is...

Tags: Storage management, Databases, ort0653@..., data recovery, BIOS, notebook

Discussion threads 2007-09-12

SelectFx (zip)

SelectFx Crash Effects Generator Features: SelectFx lets you choose different Land and Water crash effects to use in Fs2002/Fs2004. Save/Load your favorite crash effect setups. To provide the highest realism, these effects are categorized by effect type: Craters, Dirt, Splashes, Mists, Fires, Fireballs, Smoke, Smoke Puffs, Projectiles, and Concussion. Fast...

Tags: Aircraft, Template, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing

Software downloads 2005-06-09

Translucator (exe)

Translucator is a Photoshop-compatible plug-in for Windows. It extracts translucent objects (glass, smoke, fog, fur) from images having complex background content with the minimum efforts. Result may be used for collage, scrapbooking, and greeting card creation. You do not need accurately draw out an object. Mark translucent area and press...

Tags: Background, Translucator, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2006-11-07

Microsoft warns Asian governments of Linux lawsuits

Ballmer threatens Asian GovernmentsAlmost sounds like he is trying a shake down.Monkey Boy - "You know, you will be protected from lawsuits if you by microsoft software"Chine, Japan, Korea - "Protected from who?"Monkey Boy - "From us."Blowing Smoke? or Scared?I doubt the patents Ballmer is claiming have any teeth. Everything...

Tags: Asian Governments, Linux, ManIT, Microsoft Corp., Monkey Boy

Discussion threads 2004-11-18

software

its your first day at the IT office,your manager hands you a listingprogram listingand says see if you can find the bug? what do you reply"Be Right Back""After my smoke and cup of coffee.":)

Tags: toks02@..., software

Discussion threads 2007-07-09

Photos: Happy hour with robots

Cocktail robots mix mojitos, serve snacks, make small-talk and smoke cigarettes at Vienna convention.

Tags: photograph, robot, snack, Vienna

Image galleries 2006-12-08

(Images: SpaceShipTwo--your ticket to space)

and it only took 60 yearsIf you watch an old Buck Rogers movie, you'll see an amazing resemblance of this shit. Except the smoke drifted upwards and sparks fell to towards the "planet" as it rocketed through the atmosphere.

Tags: ProjManager

Discussion threads 2006-10-10

Wanderings of a Divine Mind

blog rootPutting out fires!Wonderful!  The day starts out with the usual Monday-morning rushing about, but it didn't stop there.  Many users were complaining of not being able to log-in to the old Novell system (won't be around much longer so don't ask).  After the second-one complained before I could get...

Tags: Manufacturing, timdockins@...

Discussion threads 2006-03-15

global warming i wish

so far i've been freezing this winter. i have to wear gloves when having a smoke, or my hands freeze off. do i live on the same planet as these global warming types?

Tags: FireBringer

Discussion threads 2007-02-10

Background Remover (exe)

Background Remover is a Photoshop-compatible plug-in for Windows. The goal of the Background Remover is to extract object from images having complex background content with the minimum efforts. You can process translucent objects. Result may be used for collage and greeting card creation. You dont need accurately draw out an...

Tags: Background, Tool, Background Remover, Productivity

Software downloads 2006-07-20

NEC Corporation Pirated

http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3000Simply Mirror Sites B-)...as in smoke and mirrors.gee, I wonder extra MicroSoft ? (now is that why Hu 'Had'to talk to Billy) Is that why Vista is a little dislected? (Written in Chineese?)

Tags: Pirated, drm, nec, dmca, pirate, pwned, jmgarvin, NEC Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-04-27

Overclocking - Voltage

Hey,I am currently running a C2D E6600 2.4 on an Asus P5N-e SLI, And im working on Over clocking it. I am relatively new at the whole idea. I have it clocked at 1422 FSB at 9x, 3.2ghz, and I want to push it to 3.4, but im afraid I...

Tags: jstoneky@..., voltage, overclocking

Discussion threads 2007-09-26

Viacom to YouTube: Take down pirated clips

Congratulations, Viacom.You've managed yet again to be the biggest enemy to yourself. If people behaved the way you did, when they got lung cancer from smoking, they would smoke twice as much, thinking that maybe all the toxic substances would kill the cancer cells.

Tags: nighthawk808, off-topic, Viacom Inc., YouTube Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-02-06